Gavriil Loginovich Pribylov (c. 1747-48 [1] - 1796 [2] ) - a Russian navigator , explorer of the North Pacific Ocean, discovered the islands of St. George and St. Paul .
| Gavriil Loginovich Pribylov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | OK. 1747–48? |
| Place of Birth | Okhotsk ? |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Okhotsk |
| A country | |
| Occupation | |
| miscellanea | discovered the islands of St. George and St. Paul, the island of Pribylov |
Biography
Career start
He was probably born in Okhotsk . In 1766 he was determined as a navigational apprentice on the expedition of Peter Kuzmich Krenitsyn, and until its completion in 1770 he took an active part in all of her works. In July 1768, on the galliot, "St. Catherine" moved from Nizhnekamchatsk to the Aleutian Islands , engaged in the course of swimming to describe them. Wintered on the island of Unalaska . In July 1770 he returned to Okhotsk and was assigned to the crew of the Okhotsk port. [one]
Mist Islands
Pribylov as part of the expedition of Mikhail Vasilievich Nevodchikov in 1768, 1769, 1770, partly in 1771, explored the Bering Sea and the North Pacific . Returning from sailing, Pribylov composed a note in which he reported on a local tradition heard from a shaman- Aleut in one of the Aleutian islands : in the sea between two large continents are the so-called Fog islands with many seals - valuable fur-bearing animals and the subject of a constant search for fishermen. Already elderly Nevodchikov refused to search for mythical islands, but Empress Catherine II in 1771 ordered to organize an expedition of Pribylov. [3]
Finding Islands
In the spring of 1773, Pribylov began searching in the area north and northeast of the Fox Islands , south of the freezing border of the Bering Sea. He commanded the ship of the Russian-American Company St. George (1781-1786). [4] To no avail, he set sail 17 times, methodically mapping the investigated areas, changing crews and suppressing the riots of desperate sailors. I had to sail through the stormy sea through a thick fog. [3] For the 18th time, Arriving in the spring of 1786, north of Unalashka Island, he discovered an island rich in sea animals, following the sound of the roar of northern fur seals . [five]
The following year, fishing people found another island north of the open island of St. Gregory, named after the memorial day of Saints Peter and Paul (today - St. Paul's Island). In 1789, the merchant and navigator Grigory Shelikhov named this group of islands by the name of Pribylov . [6] [7]
Recent years
For three years in the water area of the open islands, Pribylov conducted a successful fishing, and in the fall of 1790 he was enlisted by the pilot on the expedition of I. Billings - G. Sarychev in the crew of the ship "Black Eagle" under the command of Roman Romanovich Gall . Later he mined furs in the Gulf of Alaska , commanding various vessels of the Russian-American company and reaching the islands of Queen Charlotte in the south. On the instructions of the company’s governor Alexander Andreevich Baranov, in 1795 he brought the first settlers [8] and the father of Juvenal , a geological monk, to Yakutat Bay.
The navigator died in 1796 [2] in Okhotsk [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Marine Biographical Directory of the Far East of Russia and Russian America, XVII - beginning of XX centuries. / B. N. Bolgurtsev. - Far East. state tech. un-t humanizes. institute - Vladivostok: Ussuri, 1998 .-- 232 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Sarychev Gavriil Andreevich. Traveling in the north-eastern part of Siberia, the Arctic Sea and the Eastern Ocean. - Gos. publishing house geogr. Liters, 1952.- S. 299.- 324 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Blondes, Georges. 6. Bloody Islands // The Great Secrets of the Oceans: Atlantic Ocean. Pacific Ocean. Indian Ocean. - M .: ABC-Atticus, 2016 .-- 640 p. - (Adventure World). - ISBN 5389121996 .
- ↑ Zubov Nikolay. Domestic explorers of the seas and oceans. - ISBN 5457685128 .
- ↑ Pribilof Islands Restoration Project Historical Overview // English National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. - 2005. - November 10.
- ↑ Black, Lydia. Russians in Alaska in 1732-1867 = Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867. - University of Alaska Press, 2004 .-- 328 p. - ISBN 1889963046 .
- ↑ Shelikhov, Grigory Ivanovich. Russian merchant Grigory Shelikhov wandering from Okhotsk along the Eastern Ocean to the American shores / Boris Petrovich Polevoy. - 1971. - 171 p. - (Far Eastern Historical Library).
- ↑ The Arctic - my home: the history of the exploration of the north in the biographies of famous people / Magidovich V.I .. - M .: Northern open spaces, 2001. - 280 p. - (Polar Encyclopedia of a schoolboy). - ISBN 5-87098-040-2 .
See also
- Pribylov Islands